40 TV and Movie Tropes to File Under ‘Enough Already’

Tropes that have been there and done that
40 TV and Movie Tropes to File Under ‘Enough Already’

We know how it feels to get called out for something you think youre getting away with. We just got called out for starting every pre-list blurb with “We know how it feels…” So, Hollywood, dont feel too bad about being called out for your gratuitous use of the same old tropes. Do what we did and use this as a fresh start. A new beginning where you drum up original ways of telling stories. 

Well start doing the same with our opening lines. We promise.

Sleep

STAR WARS REVENGE OF THE SITH WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU HAD A NIGHTMARE SO INTENSE THAT YOU CONSTANTINE JOLT UP 90 DEGREES FROM YOUR BED? HOW ABOUT... NEVER? THE RING CRACKED.COM

Passwords

Batman & Robin In Time GUESSING SOMEONE'S PASSWORD IN FILMS IS SO EASY, YOU CAN DO IT IN MINUTES. JUST LOOK AROUND THE COMPUTER FOR HINTS, OR RECALL BIRTHDATES OF PEOPLE THEY CARE ABOUT AND YOU'RE IN! Lord of War War Games GRACKED.COM

Innocent Villains

- - - : NETSUITE NETSUITE - AtAletic AWFUL BIOPIC TROPES INNOCENT PEOPLE GET TURNED INTO VILLAINS Every movie needs a villain, which makes it tricky when real people face several enemies or even entire systems. In that case, you can condense every challenge into one character, even if its real-life inspiration wasn't really an enemy. Movies that have screwed over real people include Cinderella Man, Moneyball, Dog Day Afternoon, and Ed Wood. CRACKED.COM

Slow Claps

Crowds at sporting events need to see a lone person slow clap before they start applauding. Rudy Mystery, Alaska Cool Hoosiers Runnings CRACKED.COM

New Hair

CRACKED COM Enough of the new hair = character development shortcut. It's time to be a little more creative.

Elevator Music

MR. & MRS SMITH Perfect Gift... الله Card TMNT SPIDER-MAN WALL-E DAWN OF THE DEAD X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE *Awkward Elevator CRACKED.COM Music*

Jodi Benson

Thumbelina The Little Mermaid Balto In animated movies, Jodi Benson has to almost always voice redheaded characters who fall in love with males not her own species. CRACKED.COM

Cop Shows

The cop show has become its own genre. Many have a power duo that takes law enforcement by storm. However, it seems that if there S a female in the duo, she's the real cop who needs to be accompanied by a male not-a-cop partner with a special power/skill to help her out, as in... CASTLE FOREVER THE THE MENTALIST LISTeNeR ))) AND COMING SOON... MINORITY LIMITLESS REPORT GRAGKED.COM

Traitors

CRACKED.COM THE CAPABLE WOMAN WHO ASSISTS THE HERO AND FORMS A DEEP CONNECTION WITH HIM IS ALWAYS THE TRAITOR *Pictured: Casino Royale, The Spy Who Loved Me, I Spy, Batman: Mask of The Phantasm, Die Another Day

Older Men

CRACKED.COM Ghost American World Beauty An older man that escapes his dreary life by forming an unlikely relationship/ friendship with a younger girl. Lost in Paper Translation Man

Black Presidents

The Fifth Element Deep Impact 24 season 2 1997 (1998) (2002) S Idiocracy 24, season 6 2012 (2006) (2007) (2009) FEDERATION The Event White House Down Big Game (2010) (2013) (2014) Did you just cast a black man as the President of the United States? God damn it! Now I have to rewrite the whole script so there is chaos because of something like terrorist attacks, food shortages, CRACKED.COM or the end of the world!!

Virginity

CRACKED.COM Best friends in high school (these are all specifically about males) try to lose Porky's their virginity before college or some other specific date. Hilarity rarely ensues. American Pie Superbad Girl Next Door Sex Drive

Christopher Nolan

CRACKED COM FABILITÉ 1 Almost every single one of Christopher Nolan's wife/girlfriend characters DIES * Following, Memento, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Inception, Interstellar

Kids

A group of misfit kids_have to fix a problem (or a perceived problem) through a strange series of events. They break several laws along the way but get away with it because (usually) тот and dad love them? STEVEN SPIELBERG Presents THE GOONIeS You know who to call when you have ghosts. But who doyou call RICHARD DONNER Fin when you have monsters? MONSTER STEPHEN SQUAD KING'S - - - - WITH TEXA TER THEI THE HOUSE - adidas - UKO HIGH THE IT ARREST SANDLOT The Master of Karror minashes everything MON were ever afraid DE JAMIE LEE CURTIS

Road Trips

SIDEWAYS FROM THE DIRECTOR OF MEN AT AN ELECTION to ABOUT SCHMIOT EXISTENTIAL CROSSROAD IN LIFE DECIDE TO GO ON A ROADTRIP. JACK NICHOLSON ABOUT SCHMIDT - - LICENSE ALEXANDER PAINE NEBRASKA GRACKED.COM

Women in Film

Three female roles? ISLA JOE FISHER Make them CABETH TOBEY EDGES BICKI MAGUIRE - Blonde I 1 I T II I - CHARLIES ANGELS DEFINITELY, MAYBE Dark Hair THREE THREE RELATIONSHIPS. DISASTERS. & Redhead Kirsten Isla Lizzy Dunst Fisher Caplan bachelorette CRACKED.COM James Kyle Total Monden bomhaimer Willion 5004

Humanity

GRAGKED.COM WHEVE SHORT CIRCUIT JOHNNY DEPP NUMBERS - NAME edward SCISSORHANDS West Disney PINOCCKIO CLASSICS A robot, android ROBIN WILLIAMS or puppet was KA Open Make & brought to life تحليب Eyos and de now it wishes to become more BICENTENNIAL MAN human! - iROBOT A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Metalheads

A male character who likes Rock or Heavy Metal music? Better make them either goofy or stupid. We can't suggest that people who listen to that stuff could be intellectually normal. WAYNES WOURLE TA UNION CRACKED.COM

High School Cliques

CRACKED.COM JUMP ACCORDING TO 21 STREET TODAY'S HIGH SCHOOLERS ARE EITHER KING birth GOTHS NERDS HIPSTERS OR K-POP GIRLS AND THE COOL KIDS ARE ALL EXTREMELY PROGRESSIVE.

Millenials

Millennials are automatically hostile to anyone older than them. Girls You're the Worst Togetherness Louie CRACKED.COM

Exes

CRACKED.COM New Girl Friends Are you best friends with your exes? How I Met Your Scrubs Mother

Parties

U FREE BEER CRACKED.COM party. LY FUT FREE BEER HOSTED BY Bogey Lowenstein Friday Evening 8:00pm 7281 GRANDVIEW DRIVE SEATTLE JUST BE THERE! A house party won't have 300 crashers, DON'T من CALL 206.3 87 like in 10 Things I Hate About You.

High School

Pretty Little Liars High school girls don't dress like it's the prom every day. GRACKED.COM

Love Triangles

All young people are caught in a CRACKED.COM Vampire Diaries iCarly GiRL WORLD GOSSIPGIRL LOVE TRIANGLE.

Idiots

Not Every Ensemble Needs an Idiot CRACKED.COM

CPR

TAKEN FROM THE SCREEN MEDICAL PRACTITIONER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA* CPR will only work if you get angry and shout at the victim. Acceptable phrases: Wake up! wake up! Come back to me God-damn it! Live, damn it! Don't leave me Don't you dare quit on me! *made up book CRACKED.COM

Rain

CRACKED COM It doesn't Always ET BC ез ORISIEN have to Rain at Funerals.

Bad Guys in Black and White

CRACKED COM TWISTER BAD GUYS: FACELESS CLONES IN BLACK AND WHITE MATRIX RELOADED EPISODE 2 SER MONGAN MIGHTY DUCKS

White Heroes

White Dude Goes Native Saves The Day CRACKED.COM

Goodbyes

FATALLY WOUNDED ALLIES ALWAYS SAY GOODBYE CRACKED COM

Will They/Won’t They

Will they? Won't they? Cut the bullerap, We know they will. CRACKED.COM

Glasses

CRACKED COM Sick of being a total DORK? The solution to INSTANT SIZZLE could not be simpler. Just lose the glasses.

Dumb Dads

Enough with the dumb dads. CAUTION SPICAL DAD GRACKED COM

Explosions

GRACKED.COM casually waLKing away near expLosions ain't COOL IF you have to deaL with shock waves, shRapneL, OR hearing LOSS.

Ugly Bad Guys

CRACKED.COM Beautiful people are good. Ugly people are bad.

Divorcees

Divorcees have a tough time getting along... Wacky illegal antics/large scale tragcdy ensues... Hurray! No more marriage problems! CRACKED.COM

Trust

Don't trust anybody. Later... I told you not to trust anybody! CRACKED.COM

Get the Girl

CRACKED.COM TO GET THE GIRL SAVE HER LIFE

Con Men

CRACKED.COM this is my estranged father... he's a con-man CHUCK LOST psychNew Girl DEXTER 30ROCK

Bad Guys

KILL THE BOSS THE 13TH WARRIOR AND SOMEHOW THE REST OF THE BAD GUYS WILL JUST KINDA CHILL OUT AND GO AWAY CRACKED.COM

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